4. Read the article again and answer the questions using the active vocabulary.
What renewal is possible?
What is the central reality of the twenty-first century?
Do Cold War approaches serve Russian national interests? And why?
Do Russian strategic interests run counter American ones?
Where does USA facilitate Russia to enter?
What is a proclaimed goal of the US foreign policy in the states of the former Soviet Union?
How can this goal boost Russian commitment to integration into the Euro-Atlantic community?
What sort of strategic partnership do Russia and USA still have to build?
What poisons Russian-US relations according to the document?
5. Using the active vocabulary render the article in English.
6. Using the given «package words» express your agreement or disagreement with the following statements and comment on them.
Agreement: I couldn't agree more./I fully agree with.../It appears to me to be true.
Partial agreement: To some extent it is true./I agree but up to a point.
Disagreement: I'm afraid it's not quite right./I would object to .../On the contrary.
The United States and Russia are no longer strategic adversaries.
Russia's top leaders have a realistic assessment of their country's current weakness and the policies.
Russian and American strategic interests overlap in many areas. If yes, where.
A prosperous and stable neighborhood will reinforce Russia's growing commitment to integration into the Euro-Atlantic community.
Distrust of the US motives and policies by key Russian elites slows improvement in Russian-US relations.
Russia has an uneven commitment to the basic values of free-market democracy and dubious destruction.
1 противоракетная оборона — antiballistic missile defense
2 Эту фразу нужно объединить с предыдущим предложением. Источник информации в англоязычном тексте стоит либо в конце предложения и отделяется запятой (напр. ..., said the Foreign Ministry spokesman), либо начинает предложение (напр. According to the Foreign Ministry spokesman...)
Unit 8. Interviews and press conferences
1. Read the following sample interviews, paying attention to the way the interviewers ask questions and interviewees answer them. Sample 1. Press conference of the us Secretary of Defense
Q: Mr. Secretary, can you confirm, sir, today, and since you have admitted there are US troops in the area, that US troops are now inside Pakistan finding or hunting for those wanted terrorists, the most wanted terrorists, al Qaeda and Taliban? And if you have spoken with anybody — any one of them, or their leader?
Secretary: As you know, my policy is to have other countries characterize what it is they're doing rather than we characterize it for them. And I have really nothing to say except that the borders of Afghanistan, around 360 degrees, tended to be relatively porous over the decades.
Q: Mr. Secretary, I would switch — for a minute to Moscow, the discussions on the nuclear arms reduction. What is the value of this process of negotiating a written agreement, from the US point of view? What's the value of doing that?
Secretary: Well, when the president made his announcement, he indicated that the United States of America was going to do what he said; namely, bring down strategic offensive nuclear weapons down into the 1,700 to 2,200 level. That was a statement based on our own national security interests. The president of Russia, on a subsequent occasion, announced that they, too, intended to go down to roughly that level. What's taking place between the United States and Russia is the development of a new relationship, a new framework between our two countries.
Q: Did you get the sense from your discussions on this topic in Moscow that it will be accomplished by the time the president leaves?
Secretary: You never know. Something's not over till it's over.
It is a process, it's been going along very well. I've had numerous meetings with the defense minister of Russia. Secretary of State has had numerous meetings with the foreign minister of Russia. And the US president has had several meetings with the Russian president. And there are more ahead of us. So we just stay on the track. It's a constructive, useful process. And I enjoyed my stop in Moscow.
Q: Mr. Secretary, in your meetings this afternoon with the Chinese vice-president will you raise the issue of America's concern and this building's concern over the shifting of Chinese medium-range missiles to an area where they now threaten Taiwan and apparently a buildup of some size, up to 300 or more, we're told by press reports?
Secretary: I have not met the vice president of the People's Republic of China. He's coming in this afternoon. I look forward to it. And I don't really think it's appropriate to discuss what he or I might or might not bring up in the course of the discussion.
Q: Is it a concern to you, sir, that these missiles are being shifted?
Secretary: (Pause) How would one answer that on the eve of a visit? (Laughter.) My instinct is to leave it where I left it and not, you know, preview things that might or might not be discussed.